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Framed press cutting relating to the award of the Victoria Cross to Acting Cpl William Richard Cotter and extracts from Unknown Warriors, ‘The Dragon’, the journal of The Buffs Regiment, November 1953, relating to the events that led Cotter to be awarded the VC and explaining his subsequent wounds and death. One of six documents relating to 6707 Acting Cpl William Richard Cotter VC, (1882-1916), 1st Bn and 6th (Service) Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 37th Brigade, 12th Eastern Division, 1903-1916. Cotter served in India 1902-1903, Aden 1903-1904, and on the Western Front during World War One. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in action on 6-7 Mar 1916, near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Loos, France. Cotter died in hospital of wounds, Lillers, France, 14 Mar 1916, aged 33. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)